Preserve DOT Treasury from Burn

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If approved, we kindly request fellowship to URGENTLY reduce 24-day treasury burns from 1% to 0%
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Critical Risk:

Hard Pressure issuance caps DOT supply at 2.1B DOT & reduces treasury income.

Currently at 18M/year (15% of issuance)
→ 8.32M DOT/year (Mar 2026)
→ 6.15M DOT/year (Mar 2028)
→ 4.53M DOT/year (Mar 2030)

The Burn destroys scarce funds useful to OpenGov, economic stimulus, or network security.
Halting it preserves these assets.

Burn Facts:

1% of treasury burned every 24 days
108,162 DOT burned Oct 24, 2025
1.66M DOT burned in 2024
20.12M DOT burned since 2020

Purpose of The Burn:

Legend has it The Burn was intended to motivate DOT holders to put the treasury to work before it vanished.

This vestige of Gov1 design, however, may no longer serve DOT holder interests under a capped & and declining issuance.

Support for Halting The Burn:

1

Besides the aye voters here, Gavin Wood signalled support for Halting the Burn on a Nov. 6 livestream.

"I absolutely agree we should be doing this..."

2

On Nov 10 Web3 Foundation Researcher Jonas Gehrlein shared support for Halting the Burn in his Dynamic Allocation Pool forum piece.
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3

Decision Deposit placed by Paranodes - Thank you!

Vote AYE to halt The Burn.

Nay? Justify why we should burn treasury assets instead of saving them for future operations below!

Edited

Here is a simple summary of the proposal:

The treasury is losing money every 24 days.
This is called "the burn."
The burn was meant to encourage people to use treasury funds.
Now, the total supply of DOT is capped, so the treasury will get less money over time.
Important people in the community agree we should stop the burn.
Stopping it will save money for future projects.
This money can help the network grow and stay secure.
The proposal says: vote "AYE" to stop the burn and save the funds.

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